Appearance > Menus then create a menu call it what you like lets say Main Menu
Add Pages > categories > posts as you like, then order and indent, “drag up, down and right to sort and indent”, now you have the child pages and save!.
To add posts look at I think it is ‘screen options’ top right?
On the menu screen left you will see a heading “this theme supports menus in one location”
Under that assign you new menu to primary and save!
Now you have full control over the menus 🙂
HTH
David
Thanks David!
But… shouldn’t there be the option to make my pages either a parent or a child when I create a new page (under ‘Attributes’ under the ‘Publish’ module)?
I’m not sure why it’s not there and whether I need to do something to make it appear!
Thanks so much.
Hi RedRunner,
I just checked and it should be there under “Page Attributes”, have you selected “Page Attributes” from top right “Screen Options”, and can you see the section, Parent, Template and Order?
May be worth a look, I prefer the ‘quick edit’, Admin > Pages > Pages > then there is links under the page title:
edit | quick edit | trash | view
I save as draft and preview, then use the quick edit for for things like status change to published, add to categories, easy copy tags from another post shorter attribute edit times, etc:
B.T.W.
If you do decide to use the custom menus then setting the Parent is overlooked, as you can manage the menu structure much better, mixing pages, posts, categories, external links etc:
HTH
David
David thank you so much for your help.
I realised that as I hadn’t published any of my pages yet, then I couldn’t assign any children, as technically no parents. As soon as I published a page, then I was able to assign children to it.
Thanks for the tips on the custom menu – definitely will do that!
Cheers,
Claire.
